(Wed, 21 Jun 2017) The difference between U.S. average retail prices for premium and regular gasoline reached 50 cents per gallon in late 2016, and it has remained near that level so far in 2017. This price difference, or spread, has been generally increasing since 2000. Many factors on both the supply and demand sides are influencing this trend.
In what has become a seemingly weekly ritual, a series of problems cropped up across the city during the morning rush, including signal issues and a train with mechanical problems.
The US has joined the complex geopolitical web being spun around Nord Stream 2 with concrete action, the Senate last week proposing sanctions against companies that invest in Russian energy pipelines.
A new report by S&P Global’s China Senior Analyst Group finds that China will need to take a radically different path of energy consumption from what developed nations currently follow in order to avoid a spiking oil import bill.
(Tue, 20 Jun 2017) Gross inputs to U.S. petroleum refineries, also referred to as refinery runs, averaged a record high 17.7 million barrels per day (b/d) for the week ending May 26, before dropping slightly to 17.5 million b/d for the week ending June 2 and 17.6 million b/d for the week ending June 9. Product supplied to the U.S. market as well as inventories and exports are also at relatively high levels.
(Tue, 20 Jun 2017) The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its annual fuel ethanol production capacity report. The new report contains data for all operating U.S. fuel ethanol production plants as of January 1, 2017.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo have embraced an integrated approach to building bridges and highways, but they failed to work together to push it through Albany.
Commuters are exploring alternate routes by car, subway and ferry, and their employers are likewise considering allowing for flexible hours and working from home.
The proposed partial reversal of Buckeye’s Laurel Pipeline would offer Midwest refiners easier access to the East Coast market.
(Mon, 19 Jun 2017) Compared with other major home appliances such as clothes washers, dryers, and cooking equipment, dishwashers are both less pervasive and less likely to be used when available. Of the 80 million households that have a dishwasher, 16 million (almost 20%) did not use their dishwasher in 2015, based on data from EIAâs Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS).
